New Project for 2006

[billeyler]

Bob Brundage (brother of Al) is a VERY long time contra, round and square dance caller, now retired and living Albuquerque.

In 1997, he started a project in conjunction with the Lloyd Shaw Archives (formerly here in ABQ, now at UC Boulder) to do interviews with Milestone Award winners from Callerlab. Originally, that was the scope, but it sort of got out of hand. To date, the 83-year-old Bob Brundage has recorded 119 interviews with dance legends over the past 8 years. 22 of these folks have already died.

A couple of months ago I broached to Bob that the tapes are just languishing in storage right now, and only 25% of them have been transcribed. My vision was that the audio would be available on a website, as were the transcriptions, and maybe pictures of as many of these folks as we could get.

So, my project for this next year is to make all this happen. And publicize the hell out of it when it's done! Danny and Kris have volunteered to help with the project.

I'm also going to convince Bob to interview some of our gay history legends...we've lost a number already that I can think of.

I LOVE living history!

Comments

[otterpop58.livejournal.com]

transcriptions as well as MP3's online - that'd be cool
maybe if there are old SIO recordings of some of these ledgends, get them up there in MP3 form as well.

yellow rocks

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

We're looking at having both streaming video and .mp3, as well as .pdf (courtesy ADOBE SOFTWARE). The adding of audio snippets of calling and cuing are a 'later' part of the project, as are photos and videos. The EASY part is converting the tapes to some sort of electronic audio, and Danny is gung ho to tackle that.